Category Archives: Canadian Press
The Latest: Drones 'highly targeted' to disrupt UK airport
LONDON - The Latest on London airport closure because of drones (all times local): 6:45 p.m. The chief executive of London’s Gatwick Airport says the drone intrusion that shut the airport was &#...
Dec 20, 2018
Advice to Canadians in China after third Canadian detained: 'Lie low'
TORONTO - An expert in Canada-China relations warns the recent detaining of an Alberta woman over what authorities have called employment issues could signal a ramping up of low-level harassment as th...
Dec 20, 2018
Spain finds 11 dead migrants in boat, rescues 33
MADRID - Spain’s Maritime Rescue Service on Thursday found 11 dead migrants in a boat off the country’s southern coast and rescued 33 other passengers, one of whom later also died. All of ...
Dec 20, 2018
Smoky skies, countrywide heat wave lead Environment Canada's Top 10 weather list
Dave Phillips, Environment Canada’s senior climatologist, has been compiling Top 10 lists for 23 years and he says the weather is not as cut and dried as it used to be. Here are his top events f...
Dec 20, 2018
Environment Canada meteorologist says 2018 was 'smorgasbord' of bad events
Choking from smoke, sweltering in the heat or cursing early or late snow, Canadians could be forgiven for asking just what the heck happened to the weather in 2018. “It was almost a smorgasbord ...
Dec 20, 2018
Putin issues sinister warning on rising nuclear war threat
MOSCOW - The world is facing a rising threat of a nuclear war because of the U.S. pullout from arms control treaties and its destabilizing military plans, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursda...
Dec 20, 2018
In the news today, Dec. 20
Four stories in the news for Thursday, Dec. 20 --- WOMEN’S HOCKEY TEAM ADDS VOICE TO SEATBELT PUSH Players with the University of Alberta Pandas women’s hockey team are adding their voices...
Dec 20, 2018
'First thing you think about is Humboldt:' Women hockey players recall crash
EDMONTON - For the first couple of minutes after the crash, no one on the University of Alberta Pandas hockey team bus knew what had happened. Captain Cayle Dillon heard a big boom and felt the cold. ...
Dec 20, 2018
World Juniors: Finland crushes Denmark 7-0 in pre-tournament tune-up
LANGLEY, B.C. - Filip Lindberg and Lassi Lehtinen combined for a nine-save shutout as Finland crushed Denmark 7-0 on Wednesday in pre-competition action ahead of the world junior hockey championship. ...
Dec 19, 2018
Scores and Schedule
Wednesday’s Games NHL Colorado 2 Montreal 1 Pittsburgh 2 Washington 1 — AHL Cleveland 3 Grand Rapids 1 Hartford 3 Providence 0 Toronto 3 Binghamton 1 Belleville 5 Rochester 4 Lehigh Valley...
Dec 19, 2018